Linnaeus, C. (1762), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 1: 59 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Africa."

Cooke, D.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Iridaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 30-31, Fig. 8A-C, Map 37 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Moraea juncea L. legitimate by Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 87

Green, J.W. (1986), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 3: 53 [secondary reference]

Perry, G. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Iridaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 798 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Moraea juncea L. legitimate by Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 87

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised)

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